Connect an AI Assistant (Claude, ChatGPT, Grok, Gemini)

You can connect an AI assistant, such as Claude or Grok, to Dronelink. Then you can ask the assistant about your plans, and you can ask it to make or change plans.

The assistant uses the Dronelink connector. The connector lets the assistant read the repositories and plans of the accounts that you select. If you allow changes, the assistant can also add plans and change plans. It cannot delete a plan, and it cannot start a flight.

To learn how to plan missions with an assistant, see Plan Missions with an AI Assistant.

Before You Start

• The Dronelink account must have a plan that includes AI assistants. To see which plans include this feature, find "AI assistants" in the plan comparison table for Professional plans or Education plans.
• The subscription of the account must be active.
• You must be an Owner, Admin or Contributor of the account. In a class, the Owner, the Teachers and the Students can connect.
• AI assistants must be on for the account. They are on by default. On an Enterprise plan, they are off by default. See "Turn AI Assistants On or Off" below.
• You need an account with the AI assistant. The company of each assistant decides which of its plans let you add a connector.

Find AI Assistants in Dronelink

In the web app, click the AI assistants button (a robot) in the top bar. You can also click AI assistants in the menu. A panel opens on the right.

The panel shows the connector link, and a row for each assistant:

• A row that is Connected opens the details of your connections with that assistant.
• Any other row opens the assistant in a new tab and copies the connector link.

Each assistant uses the same link:

https://mcp.dronelink.com/mcp

To copy it, click the Copy link icon next to the link.

Connect Claude

1. Go to claude.ai and sign in.
2. Click Customize.
3. Click Connectors.
4. Click Add.
5. Click Add custom connector.
6. In Name, enter Dronelink.
7. In MCP server URL, enter the connector link.
8. Click Continue.
9. If the Dronelink page does not open, click Connect on the Dronelink connector.
10. Do the steps in "Allow the Connection" below.

Claude accepts only one connector for each link. If Claude already has a Dronelink connector, do not add a second one. Use Connect on the connector that you have. If it shows Disconnect, click Disconnect. Then click Connect.

Connect Grok

1. Go to grok.com and sign in.
2. Open Settings.
3. Click Connect Apps.
4. Click Add a custom connector.
5. In Name, enter Dronelink.
6. In Server URL, enter the connector link. Do not add Headers.
7. Click Add MCP.
8. Grok opens the Dronelink page in a new window. Do the steps in "Allow the Connection" below.

Connect ChatGPT or Gemini

ChatGPT and Gemini can also use Dronelink as a custom connector. Their steps and the plans that allow custom connectors change often.

1. In the AI assistants panel, click the row of the assistant. Dronelink opens the assistant and copies the connector link.
2. Add a custom connector (in Gemini, a custom app) with the connector link. Use the help of the assistant for the steps.
3. Do the steps in "Allow the Connection" below.

Gemini gives custom apps only to a personal Google account. With a work or school Google account, Gemini can list the Dronelink tools but does not use them.

Allow the Connection

The assistant opens a Dronelink page with the title Connect and the name of the assistant.

1. Sign in to Dronelink. If your user profile has 2FA, enter your verification code.
2. Make sure that Signed in as shows your email. If not, click Switch and sign in again.
3. If you did not start this connection, click Deny.
4. If the page shows Available accounts, clear each account that the assistant must not use. Keep at least one account checked.
5. If the page shows Allow changes, turn it off for read-only access. When it is on, the assistant can add and change plans.
6. Click Allow.
7. If Dronelink asks you to confirm your password, enter it. Dronelink asks when your last sign-in was more than 5 minutes ago.
8. The page shows Returning to your assistant. If nothing happens, close the page. Then go back to the assistant.

If you have more than one account, all the available accounts start checked. If you have more than 50 accounts, none starts checked: check up to 50. The line under the list shows how many are checked. The accounts that cannot connect are under Cannot connect. Click it to see each account and the reason. For example, its plan does not include AI assistants, its subscription is not active, your role cannot change plans, or AI assistants are off for that account.

The connection gets only the accounts that you check now. If you join another account later, connect the assistant again and check that account too.

Dronelink sends an email after each new connection. The email goes to you and to the Owners and Admins of each account that you checked.

See and Disconnect Your Connections

1. Click the AI assistants button in the top bar.
2. Click the row of a Connected assistant.
3. The details show each of your connections with that assistant: the accounts that it can use, its access (Can add and change plans or Read only), and when it was last used.
4. To end a connection for all its accounts, click Disconnect (a trash can). Then confirm.

A new connection from the same assistant replaces your older one. Gemini is different: each Google account gives a separate connection. For example, Gemini on two Google accounts gives two connections.

The disconnect control in the assistant does not end the connection in Dronelink. For example, Disconnect in Claude's connector settings stops Claude, but Dronelink keeps the connection. To end it, use Disconnect in Dronelink.

A connection ends automatically when nobody uses it for 90 days.

Connections to an Account

Each account also shows the assistants that can use it:

1. Open the account.
2. Click Settings (three dots).
3. Click the AI assistants icon (a robot).

Each assistant has one row. An Owner or Admin sees the assistants of all members. Other members see only their own. If only you connected that assistant, the row opens your connections in the AI assistants panel. Otherwise, the row shows each connection, who connected it, and Disconnect. That Disconnect removes only this account from the connection. The assistant can still use the other accounts of that connection.

Turn AI Assistants On or Off

An Owner or Admin can turn AI assistants on or off for an account. On an Enterprise plan, only the Owner can turn them on.

1. Open the account.
2. Click Settings (three dots).
3. Click the AI assistants icon.
4. Turn the Allow AI assistants switch on or off.
5. To turn it off, click Turn off in the confirmation.

When you turn AI assistants off, Dronelink disconnects all assistants from this account. To use an assistant again, turn AI assistants on. Then connect the assistant again.

When an Assistant Loses Access

• You change your password: Dronelink ends all your connections. Connect each assistant again.
• A member leaves the account: the connections of that member lose the account.
• Your role changes to one that cannot change plans: the assistant cannot use the account.
• The plan changes to a plan without AI assistants: the assistant cannot use the account. After an upgrade, it can use the account again.
• The subscription ended: the assistant can read the account, but it cannot add or change plans.
• The account starts to require 2FA: if you did not enter a verification code when you connected, the assistant cannot use the account. Connect the assistant again, and enter your verification code.

Limits

• Each user profile can have up to 10 connections.
• Each connection can use up to 50 accounts.
• Assistants have a daily limit of new plans for each account. They also have daily limits of changes for each plan and for each account.

Troubleshooting